Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ships bringing goods into New York Harbor may unload at the free port without so much as a by-your-leave to the U. S. Treasury. In this zone, operated as a public utility under Federal supervision, goods may be "stored, broken up, repacked, assembled, distributed, sorted, graded, cleaned, mixed with foreign or domestic merchandise," and finally re-exported 1) to foreign countries or 2) to the U. S. by paying duty in the ordinary way. The various operations that can be performed in the free port are called "manipulation," since by the terms of the law "manufacturing" is forbidden...
Though many authorities question the project's profitableness, New York City expects to make money from its investment in Stapleton Free Port. In the first year it is estimated that the port will handle 120,000 tons of goods. Wharfage and other revenues from the five piers and warehouse will run to $150,000, half again as much revenue as the Hylan piers have yielded in late years. That no eager freighters plowed past the vigilant electric eyes last week was due, according to Commissioner of Docks John McKenzie, to the fact that foreign shippers were not yet used...
...unremembered Freeport whence came the first settlers. How Freeport, Va. was named is unknown. Freeport, Ill. was named after First Settler William ("Tutty") Baker, who was so lavish with food and shelter to wayfarers that his wife complained: "What is this we have made of our home, a free port?" Freeport, Minn., originally called Oak Station, was renamed after Freeport, Ill. as was Freeport, Mich...
...Louisville, a restaurant advertised that it would prepare meals free for anyone who brought his own food...
Meantime in the U. S. one Harry LawIon, a free-lance astronomer of New Orleans, succeeded in getting on Associated Press wires a story that he had found a sunspot 125,000 miles long. Few days later Mr. Lawton wrote to the Naval Observatory in Washington, chided it for not publicizing this gigantic blotch. Observatory officials coughed politely, admitted sighting an unusually large crop of spots but none of the size mentioned by Lawton, declined to engage in controversy with him pending scrutiny of his scientific credentials...